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Summary: "a tablet of the highest quality" "quad-core Tegra 3 processor is out" "target price has been lowered to $149" It seems to me that you can have one
by Steko 15y ago
Summary:
"a tablet of the highest quality"
"quad-core Tegra 3 processor is out"
"target price has been lowered to $149"
It seems to me that you can have one or the other. You can make a solid $149 tablet with many compromises. Or you can make a tablet that has top (ipad) quality hardware. You can't really do both without shoveling money into the toilet.
Indeed Asus already makes a tablet with top quality hardware. It sells for $499.
- w1ntermute 15y agoYeah, it's funny to hear people trashing Android tablets when I'm sitting with a Transformer Prime right now. It works great, and does everything I could ask for from a tablet.
- cageface 15y agoI suspect that you do need a reasonable app ecosystem to get a tablet off the ground, but that once you've got the bases covered the difference between 100k apps and 400k apps becomes largely academic. If you've got a solid browser, clients for email, Facebook, and Twitter, and a reasonable ebook, movie, music and photo apps you've covered the needs of 90% of your potential buyers. Oh and Angry Birds, of course. Which is why I expect Apple to continue to own the top end of the tablet market but continue to lose overall marketshare to the greater diversity of increasingly acceptable Android alternatives. I particularly think that the 7" form factor is going to be more than a niche and the pain Android developers have suffered up front in coding to multiple screen sizes and form factors is going to pay off.
- skystorm 15y agoThe "tablet of the highest quality" has been around for a while, when the quoted price was still $250. So it's possible that this status has recently been superseded by the new target price (and thus downgraded processor).